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[opensuse] Novell/SUSE at OOoCon 2007

This isn't 100% about openSUSE... but thoguht it was interesting
enough to share with the group here. I just spent a very busy and
interesting weel in Barcelona at OOoCon 2007. Novell/SUSE was quite
visible... and the only Linux vendor in sight. Maybe that is due to
the massive amount of work that Novell contributes to the OOo project.
There were loads on openSUSE10.2 DVDs floating around, and I know of
a few people who are now very interested in openSUSE as a result of
tinkering with the DVD that was handed out.

Something I observed... A few of the presenters (outside of the Novell
guys) were running some variation of SUSE. All the SUSE guys had
(generally) no problems at all when they connected their laptops to
the projectors. It just worked. The guys who were running Ubuntu had
resolution issues... switching to the projector was... very
problematic for them. It was nice to see SUSE just working.. and a
few people noticed and started asking a lot of questions (to me
anyway)

Hubert Fuguiere's presentation on OfficeOpenXML and Novell's work on
it with OOo was quite interesting as was Noel Power's presentation on
VBA and OOo. The video of the presentations aren't all up just yet,
but once the KiberPiper guys get home and process the hours of video
they made it will be here:http://ooocon-kiberpipa.kiberpipa.org/media/index-2007.html

Probably the most fascinating (and also the hardest to understand) was
the stuff from Red Office 2000 (the Chinese presenters). If you get a
chance, take a look at what they did to make the Chinese version of
OOo. They totally reworked the UI, and the first question that was
asked was... "Is there an English version?" I wonder of some of the
concepts they came up with could be applied to Linux in general?

Anyway... it was an amazing conference... and it was nice to see
openSUSE so visible.